Re: Cut patten between slashes

From: Nick Landsberg (hukolau_at_NOSPAM.att.net)
Date: 05/22/04 

Date: Sat, 22 May 2004 12:42:08 GMT

Wyatt wrote:
> I have a file listed as
>
> /dir1/sd11/sd111/sd1111/file1
> /d2/sd2/file2
> /d3/sd31/sd34/sd345/sd3456/sd34567/file3
>
> I want to extract only filenames from this and write them into another file
>
> file1
> file2
> file3
>
> How do I do this ? Anyhelp is appreciated.

man basename 

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